11:46 PM,
May 30, 2013

Seven times in the last year, the Montreal subway system has ground to a halt, causing widespread confusion.

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Scott Tilley
Technology Today

MONTREAL - About 1.3 million people ride the subway ("Metro") here everyday. Seven times in the last year, the subway system has ground to a halt, causing widespread confusion. Customers are becoming increasingly exasperated at having their daily commute interrupted. Little information is provided to them for the outages. Usually they are forced to scramble to find alternate means of transportation during rush hour - not a pleasant experience when the weather outside is worse than at the North Pole.

The official reason for the repeated system failures is - you guessed it - a "computer ...